Top speed is in excess of 100 MPH, and the 0-60 speed is under 9.6 seconds

Safety

Each Elio comes equipped with a Safety Management System that includes three airbags – a reinforced roll-cage frame, Anti-Lock Braking System, and 50% larger crush zones than similar vehicles. Preliminary safety tests on computer models anticipate a 5-Star safety rating.

(Reuters) - Elio Motors has agreed to purchase a former General Motors Co (GM.N) assembly plant near Shreveport, Louisiana and will use it to build three-wheeled vehicles that it says will get more than 80 miles on a gallon of gasoline, the company said on Thursday.
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"Fun
It’s a blast to drive. Imagine every little errand, every daily commute being something you look forward to because it means you’ll be driving your Elio. It looks cool. And face it, you are what you drive, so that will make you one cool person."

If you are still reading after that section...then this "car" is probably for you.

The engine is in the front and it is a front-wheel-drive vehicle. So, with a low center of gravity and weight towards the front, you’ll get great traction action – even in the snow.

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A Suspension as Independent as You

The first cousin of cool is smooth. So we’ve built Elio on an independent suspension with unequal length control arms, coil-over-spring and shock in the front and mono-shock with coil-over-spring and shock in the rear. The ground clearance is 5.75″ — similar to most of the passenger vehicles you see on the road today.

Don't get me wrong, I like the concept, anything that explores new ways of reducing our fossile fuels consumption deserves our appreciation, but it had to be REALISTIC.

nobody has any money to actually fix roads these days so the only vehicle you should buy now is a truck or suv which crapcans the whole 'environmental' angle. those things would fall into some of the potholes we have around here not to mention crashing into the monster-sized speed bumps.